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Biden Extends Safe Haven Protection for Hongkongers – HKFP

 

US President Joe Biden ordered a two-year extension on Thursday of a programme that allows Hong Kong residents in the United States to stay beyond the expiry of their visas, according to a report by Hong Kong Free Press, which said the move came just before the programme was about to run out and was “likely to add to tensions between Beijing and Washington, already high over Taiwan, trade disputes, and Chinese backing for Russia”.

In a presidential memorandum, Biden said the United States is “offering safe haven for Hong Kong residents who have been deprived of their guaranteed freedoms in Hong Kong,” it said, which refers in part to the repressive national security law imposed by Beijing in June 2020 and the prosecution of many pro-democracy advocates in the years since.

Read the full report: Hong Kong Free Press.

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.

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